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Comment by curryhoward

11 years ago

> For large enough n, we can construct a Turing machine that attempts to prove a contradiction in our current most powerful axiomatic system (let's say ZFC).

What is n in this construction?

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codeflo  11 years ago

I'm sorry, n was supposed to be the number of states of the Turing machine. I've clarified the original post.

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